Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

Hello,
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> >     1. [...] Any options unranked by the voter are treated
> >        as being equal to all other unranked options.

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:47:39PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote:
> I still do not understand the "other unranked options".
> Could we simply write "Any options unranked by the voter are treated
> as being equal" or would this be something else.

That sounds fine.

Thanks.

> >     6. [...] This procedure and must be carried out in the following order:
>                               ^^^
> The "and" seems spurious to me.

Yes.

> I'm getting further with the draft.  Especially I understand
> "proposition" and "weak proposition", now.  But ...
> 
> >            Definition: a weakest proposition is a weak proposition where
> >            the vote count in the proposition which is not larger than
> >            the other vote count is also no smaller than that of any
> >            other weak proposition.
> ... this is hard stuff.  What about "minimum of the two vote counts"
> instead of "the vote count in the proposition which is not larger than
> the other vote count"?

I think that would be fine.

Thanks again,

-- 
Raul